Specialist IDs Panos' 'failure' in testimony

Expert says surgeon's treatment, diagnosis deviated from standard

11:00 AM,
Mar. 19, 2014

Spyros Panos

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An infectious disease specialist testified Tuesday that former surgeon Spyros Panos departed from the standard of care when he did not send fluid he had withdrawn from a patient's knee to a lab to test for infection.

The testimony took place during a civil trial in a Westchester County Courthouse. Panos, who worked at Mid Hudson Medical Group, is being sued by Sylvia Puiatti of Pleasant Valley, the wife of the patient, Bernard Puiatti, who died at age 78 on Jan. 19, 2008. She is suing both as an individual and as executor of her late husband's estate.